Organisations have different requirements for protecting data confidentiality, privacy, and security. A newly-released report documents best practice principles for technical experts and managers who supply and use data in New Zealand.
Protecting the confidentiality of information people supply is essential to retaining public trust and confidence in the system. Without cooperation, willingness to provide data can be too low and threaten its accuracy or the usefulness.
The latest quarterly data dashboard from Stats NZ is now available.
This draft guide provides a high-level comparison of the data and information management principles in the New Zealand context, and applies a value lens to the principles.
Stats NZ publishes a quarterly dashboard highlighting key deliverables for their data leadership role under the Government Chief Data Steward function.
A new mandated data standard for gender and sex was recently approved for use across the Public Service.
What is the Data Maturity Assessment?The Data Maturity Assessment offers a comprehensive and actionable assessment of data practice capabilities in an organisation. It does this by…
Ngā Tikanga Paihere draws on 10 tikanga (Te Ao Māori/Māori world concepts) to help you establish goals, boundaries, and principles that guide and inform your data practice.
Data dictionaries are useful information to include alongside your datasets. They help describe the elements and values contained within your data to help users reuse it. A simple data dictionary can be created quickly and should include a few key piece of information.
This style guide helps us keep the voice, tone, and messaging consistent across data.govt.nz. It specifies both general and specific rules and instructions for grammar, punctuation,…